Hamnet tells the story of the real-life tragedy Shakespeare and his family suffered following the death of his only son ...

April 23 marks the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare. The world will celebrate him as the greatest writer in the history of the English language. But his lasting fame wasn’t ...

A centuries-old manuscript once thought to be the work of William Shakespeare’s father has been reattributed to his sister,Joan Shakespeare Hart, in a new peer-reviewed study published in Shakespeare ...

To open its 50th anniversary season, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey chose “Henry IV, Part One,” one of Shakespeare’s history plays. The production, which opens officially tomorrow night at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For being arguably the most influential storyteller in the English language, William Shakespeare is nearly absent in movies. Of ...

You might have heard a lot lately about how Shakespeare wrote King Lear while he was quarantined in London during an outbreak of the plague. He didn’t. But what he did do when the theaters closed is ...

Black people have a long history with Shakespeare—and a long history of bumping up against the Bard’s white gatekeepers. The casting of Black actor Denzel Washington as Macbeth in Joel Coen’s recent ...